Popularizing Chaucer in the Nineteenth Century
- Author / Editor
- Morse, Charlotte C.
Popularizing Chaucer in the Nineteenth Century
- Published
- ChauR 38: 99-125, 2003.
- Description
- Charles Cowden Clarke, Charles Knight, and John Saunders were the most effective popularizers of Chaucer for the common reader in nineteenth-century England. These individuals translated Chaucer into modern English and bowdlerized his language in order not to offend their audiences. The works of these writers probably kept Chaucer alive in school and university curricula, leading the way for twentieth-century editors, readers, and translators.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations.